Chicken left egg

[Girl4Chickens]

My chicken left her nest to take care of her other but this one still has a baby in it. Does anyone have any idea when it will hatch?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

It won't hatch if you don't incubate it. It looks to be on about day 14. I assume the egg was put in the nest well after the first egg.
A hen can't sit on eggs and still care for live chicks.
That's why they quit laying eggs when they go broody.

 

[Girl4Chickens]

It won't hatch if you don't incubate it. It looks to be on about day 14. I assume the egg was put in the nest well after the first egg.
A hen can't sit on eggs and still care for live chicks.
That's why they quit laying eggs when they go broody.

I was told that as well but the thing is she was sitting on it the same time as the other one. I don’t really understand what happened.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Unless the remaining egg is a quitter, the two eggs were not set at the same time. Chicken eggs take 21 days. If one of the eggs hatched days ago, the other egg was added to the nest later. If they began incubation the same day, the second one died.

 

[Girl4Chickens]

Unless the remaining egg is a quitter, the two eggs were not set at the same time. Chicken eggs take 21 days. If one of the eggs hatched days ago, the other egg was added to the nest later. If they began incubation the same day, the second one died.

That’s what we thought but there was another one and when we threw it away there was a chick so we were very nervous doing that again.